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Category Archives: illustration
jump 4
Today’s page went up on time, but my normal blog post to accompany it is running late through a combination of a holiday Monday and a post that was just plain hard to write… Anyway, onwards… Now this is a … Continue reading
jump 2
Today’s art continues with this spread which I guess is as good an example of a “non traditional” comic page as I can think of… Page layout and design For this week’s post I really want to focus on probably … Continue reading
influences
Influences are a funny thing. I mean everybody has them but if you point them out people sometimes take that as a slight. Personally, I’ve always found myself on the fence about them. I know I have influences and if … Continue reading
Behind the scenes – making a pinup for reMIND
I illustrated a pin-up for the reMIND pinup contest last month, sent it off and it finally got posted earlier this week so I wanted to do a post to go behind-the-scenes of how it all came about. I was … Continue reading
Shadows: page 2
Creeping in the dark… This page was pretty fun to do and I seem to remember saying that not drawing people really sped things up a bit. That’ll change, but for now it’s all about setting the overall tone for … Continue reading
Cover design – THE BEGINNING
After a lot of back and forth I decided that for the printed copy of The Beginning, I would come up with a new cover. The cover that I originally used and published online here definitely works for the opening … Continue reading
Art direction and design of comics – part 6
Logos & mastheads I’ve seen multiple references in the comics community to “logos on covers” and maybe it’s my editorial background, but I’ve always referred to these things as mastheads. So that’s how I’ll refer to them here. If you’re … Continue reading
Art direction and design of comics – part 5
Lettering Comics are unique in that they use “lettering” to communicate the written language of the story (not sound like TV/movies or prose like a book). There are many ways to letter a comic, but in this series I’m really … Continue reading
Art direction and design of comics – part 4
putting it together I’ve covered a lot in the first bunch of posts and the question now is how to apply it all to your comic. For me, the first thing to do is to establish what your book is … Continue reading
Art direction and design of comics – part 3
design and design elements Graphic design, at its most basic is about the combination of words and text with pictures to effectively communicate a message to a reader/viewer. A lot of the time this involves some form of artistic skill … Continue reading